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HPCx User Mailing 064 24 March 2005
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Contents
** Course: Shared-Memory Programming with OpenMP
** Eleventh Annual Meeting of ScicomP: 31 May-3 June, Edinburgh
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Greetings--
COURSE: SHARED-MEMORY PROGRAMMING WITH OPENMP
Wednesday-Friday, 30 March - 1 April 2005, at EPCC, Edinburgh
A significant number of parallel computers utilise a shared memory
architecture: the HPCx system itself is built from a large number of
32-way shared-memory nodes. This course is primarily about how to
effectively program these computers. After an introduction to the
fundamental concepts of the shared variables model, the course focuses
on the syntax and semantics of OpenMP, the industry standard for
shared memory programming. Material is presented covering the
potential performance issues and how to solve them, and real
performance figures from HPCx. The topic of mixed-mode programming
using both MPI and OpenMP in a single code is also covered.
Hands-on programming makes up a significant, and integral, part of
this course. There will be opportunities to discuss your own
particular applications with HPCx staff members.
The course will start at 10:00 on Wednesday 30th March and finish
around lunchtime on Friday 1st April.
To register for this course, please use the standard form:
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html
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ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF SCICOMP
31 May - 3 June, Edinburgh
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** PLEASE NOTE: the deadline for abstracts for **
** ScicomP 11 is Friday, 8 April 2005 **
** http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/scicomp/main.htm **
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ScicomP, the IBM Scientific System User Group, will be meeting this
year in Edinburgh, hosted by EPCC.
ScicomP meetings target computational scientists and engineers
interested in achieving maximum performance and scalability on all of
IBM's HPC platforms. This meeting will span the new and exciting range
of IBM technologies including POWER architecture, Federation switch,
BlueGene/L, and beyond. Presentations will be a balance of HPC users
and the IBM R&D staff that produce and maintain them. User
presentations focus on real world experiences in porting, maintaining,
and running codes on large scale IBM systems. Issues may include (but
are not limited to) code migration, scalable algorithms, hybrid
programming models, exploiting system architectures, and scheduling
and execution frameworks. IBM staff presentations include hardware and
software roadmaps for large systems; application development support
software tools; performance programming, measurement, analysis, and
tuning techniques.
Previous meetings in this series have been very well-attended and
successful. Naturally, this year we will looking forward to welcoming
HPCx users; you may also wish to consider making a presentation to
the meeting.
Full details, a registration form and the procedure for submitting
abstracts can be found here:
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/scicomp/main.htm
Important dates:
8 April 2005 (Friday) - Deadline for Abstracts
1 May 2005 (Sunday) - Early Registration Closes
31 May 2005 (Tuesday) - ScicomP Tutorial(s)
1-3 June 2005 (Wed-Fri) - ScicomP Meeting
This meeting is co-located with SP-XXL, a meeting of system
administrators of IBM HPC systems. Registration for this meeting is
via the same webpage, but please note that attendance is restricted to
members of the SP-XXL group.
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Regards
--John
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